I wanted my datasets to be drawn on top of my line and box annotations, so I used drawTime: 'beforeDatasetsDraw'. However, that causes the datasets to overwrite the lines' and boxes' labels, which doesn't look good at all:
It seems to me that, even if annotation lines and boxes are drawn below the datasets, the labels for those annotations should be drawn on top of datasets. (At least, I can't think of any circumstances where you'd want a text label but are okay with it being partially obscured by your data...)
I saw similar questions and discussions (#94, #147, #161), although my request is a bit different - I'm proposing moving label-drawing to a separate loop that's always after the datasets (ignoring drawTime), instead of #161's approach of moving label-drawing to a separate loop within the configured drawTime.
I wanted my datasets to be drawn on top of my line and box annotations, so I used
drawTime: 'beforeDatasetsDraw'. However, that causes the datasets to overwrite the lines' and boxes' labels, which doesn't look good at all:It seems to me that, even if annotation lines and boxes are drawn below the datasets, the labels for those annotations should be drawn on top of datasets. (At least, I can't think of any circumstances where you'd want a text label but are okay with it being partially obscured by your data...)
I saw similar questions and discussions (#94, #147, #161), although my request is a bit different - I'm proposing moving label-drawing to a separate loop that's always after the datasets (ignoring
drawTime), instead of #161's approach of moving label-drawing to a separate loop within the configureddrawTime.